Cap and Trade for Fishing

Some positive news for the environment. The rapid depletion of the world's fish is a serious problem which could have serious ramifications for complex underwater eco systems. Thumbs up for the Obama administration:

The "Catch Share Task Force," announced yesterday, includes 16 NOAA
advisers and fisheries experts to shape a system for setting strict
catch limits and distributing total catch shares to commercial fishers,
usually based on their historical catch. Fishers can then buy and sell
their shares.....

The new task force indicates an increased commitment from the Obama
administration to advance fisheries cap-and-trade. The administration
also requested significant new funding for fiscal 2010 budget for the
effort. The House approved a NOAA spending bill last week with $18.6
million for "catch share" fisheries. A Senate panel will take up its version of the bill today.

St Vincent and the Grenadines are ready to lead demands that UK, France and Netherlands pay reparations for transatlantic slave trade. Do they have a chance of succeeding, and do they have the right to demand money from the countries responsible for enslaving their ancestors?

Opponents of the Trans-Pacific Partnership say the trade deal will cost lives in poor countries by making it more difficult to produce generic drugs, but the Obama administration says the opposite. Who are you going to trust?

As of 1:45 p.m. New York time, trading on the New York Stock Exchange remains suspended due to an as-of-right-now unknown problem, but officials at the NYSE insist that it's not a malicious cyber-attack.